Angiotensin-Neprilysin Inhibition in Hemodialysis Initiation

Exclusion Criteria

• •Anuria (daily urine volume \<100 mL/day)
• •Current or any use of sacubitril/valsartan within the past 30 days
• •History of hypersensitivity or intolerance to any of the study drugs, including ARBs or sacubitril/valsartan
• •Angioedema related to previous ACE inhibitor, ARB, or ARNI therapy
• •Serum potassium \>5.5 mEq/L at screening (pre-HD if already on HD)
• •Acute coronary syndrome, stroke, TIA, major CV surgery, percutaneous coronary intervention or carotid angioplasty within one month
• •Intended coronary or carotid revascularization within 4 months
• •Implantation of a cardiac resynchronization therapy device (CRTD) within 3 months or intent to implant a CRTD
• •History of heart transplant, or planned heart transplant, or with left ventricular assist device
• •Planned renal transplant within 4 months
• •Documented untreated ventricular arrhythmia with syncopal episodes within 3 months
• •Symptomatic bradycardia or 2nd or 3rd degree heart block without a pacemaker
• •Presence of hemodynamically significant valvular disease or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or infiltrative cardiomyopathy including suspected or confirmed amyloid heart disease (amyloidosis)
• •History of malignancy of any organ system within the past year (exceptions: squamous and basal cell carcinomas of the skin and carcinoma of the cervix in situ, or a malignancy that in the opinion of the investigator is considered cured with minimal risk of recurrence)
• •Liver disease (e.g., acute hepatitis, chronic active hepatitis, cirrhosis with evidence of portal hypertension); Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels \>2.0 times the upper limit of normal (ULN) or total bilirubin \>1.5 times the ULN, unless consistent with Gilbert's disease
• •Pregnant (positive hCG test) or lactating women
• •Enrollment in another interventional trial
• •Received an active investigational drug (including vaccines) other than a placebo agent, or used an investigational medical device within 12 weeks before Day 1/baseline
• •Does not have capacity to consent (Folstein mini-mental score of 23 or less)
• •Any condition that in the opinion of the investigator would make participation not in the best interest of the subject
• •Women of child-bearing age, unless using two birth control methods. Women of child-bearing potential, defined as all women physiologically capable of becoming pregnant, unless they are using highly effective methods of contraception during dosing of investigational drug and for 7 days off of study drug.